Self confidence
Ethnic differences
The 2006 Youth Connectedness study found no statistically significant differences between European, Māori or other ethnic groups in terms of self confidence.
In 2007, however, the study found that young people of New Zealand European ethnicity were less likely to agree with the statement “I feel confident and positive about myself” than young people of Māori or other ethnic groups. The highest levels of agreement with the statement came from the diverse group of young people who were of neither Māori nor New Zealand European ethnicity.
Further analysis suggests that this ethnic difference in 2007 between Māori and New Zealand European young people is significant for older participants (ages 13 to 16), but not for those aged 11 and 12 years old.
Notes
We encourage you to be cautious about drawing conclusions from comparisons between ethnic groups. Apparent differences (in unadjusted data) between ethnic groups can often be explained by factors other than ethnicity per se, such as the different age, sex, geographical and socioeconomic distributions of different ethnic populations. In addition, datasets vary in the way that they collect and record ethnicity data.
